A new treatment that blocks an aging-related protein restored lost cartilage in old mice and helped prevent arthritis after knee injuries. Human cartilage samples showed similar signs of regeneration, raising hopes for a future drug that could repair joints instead of replacing them.
  • Moodel@feddit.ukEnglish
    11 days

    This is just epic news. Well done all the scientists for making this happen. :)

    • Brem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13 days

      If you think anyone but the elite will be able to afford or procure these procedures, you’re incredibly optimistic.

      As soon as it gets approved, some shitty corporation will purchase the patent and lock it behind a paywall for 80+ year old geriatrics with zero fucks given towards people who actually deserve or need it.

            • orioler25@lemmy.worldEnglish
              13 days

              Are you seriously also down here saying racist shit to a Native American so that you can roleplay some flex on what you thought was just some poor USAmerican who couldn’t afford healthcare? Your good guy scenario was dunking on a poor person in an authoritarian state?

              Europeans are seriously the most bloodthirsty fucks I’ll see online, and they’re predictably the most smug about it too.

              • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                12 days

                I have no idea what you’re trying to say. Are you saying he’s NOT an American because he’s indigenous? And wtf is racist? At least now I know what his comment means. You people think everybody knows the same things you do.

                (I’m Asian BTW, but yeah go on)

                • lad@programming.devEnglish
                  12 days

                  Oh but how dare you be Asian when you were already assigned European at post /s

                • orioler25@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  12 days

                  “It isn’t racist to call a Native American a ‘yank’ because I’m ignorant about racism.” You’re telling me that you moderate a Norwegian community, talk a shit ton about Euro nations, but you think it doesn’t make you look like a racist asshole to not know what is racist about trying to dunk on an indigenous person (who, again, you thought was just some other poor person) by calling them a term that identifies them with the occupying settler state that has committed genocide against their people.

                  Yeah dude, totally not a bloodthirsty chud.

      • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13 days

        This drug can be delivered via pill. It has a range of effects in reversing age related damage.

        I’m not sure if it will be kept to the rich, or given out widely to justify the removal of social security, or at least jacking up the retirement age.

        • Brem@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13 days

          If the worker-slaves live longer, you don’t have to indoctrinate & capture new ones quite as often!

          • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
            13 days

            I’d like my partners knees to work again so they can do the things they like as they age, like riding bikes or hiking.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
    12 days

    I’m glad to hear that stuff like this is still going on. Nice!

  • elbucho@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13 days

    I remember when I was a senior in high school back in the late 90s, my biology teacher mused one day that ours might be the first generation to not die of old age. I don’t know if I’m anywhere near as optimistic now as he was then, but it is incredibly exciting to think about. There have been a slew of discoveries over the past 20 years that have been building towards this, and it’s all been very fascinating. No idea if this is the grail or not, but it certainly seems like an important piece of the puzzle.

    • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
      12 days

      my biology teacher mused one day that ours might be the first generation to not die of old age.

      Good for you that it was not the history teacher.

  • rainbowbunny@slrpnk.netEnglish
    13 days

    Ready for someone to tell me why this unfortunately won’t work / become mainstream

    • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13 days

      Well, this same drug (working name MF-300) is a PDGH-15 inhibitor and has already been through phase 1 human trials for a separate condition.

      Because PDGH-15 also causes age related muscle weakness.

      Now, PDGH-15 also plays a role in cancer prevention, and there may be a few other less obvious functions.

      I don’t know if the results of the phase 1 trials have been published yet, but it’s been a while since I checked.

      I’ve been hearing about MF-300 for a little under a year, and with these same claims about restoring cartilage.

  • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12 days

    This would be amazing for my wife. I mean I guess it would have been amazing if she still had her original knee. Maybe it’ll be amazing for the other knee one day.

  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    13 days

    Americans, we get it, you have no healthcare system worth the name. Stop assuming nobody else worldwide can get the meds either.

    • orioler25@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13 days

      Sorry, is this not meant to sound like you’re a Eurocentrist douchebag? Medical care and resources are already not distributed proportionately throughout the world exactly because a small number of nations benefit from a brutally extractive colonial system that requires the dehumanization of other groups to exist.

      The US doesn’t have a fucking healthcare system because it is a settler-colonial, imperialist military power that holds up the capitalist system that Europeans are such proud benefactors of. They violently enforce a system that inflicts as much precarity and vulnerability as possible on its people because it depends on preventing as many unprivileged people as possible from gaining enough resources to muster an effective challenge to its power within the metropole while maintaining its legitimacy to its more privileged working classes.

      So, what the fuck are you bitching about? Americans saying that people won’t be able to afford it? They’re correct, most people will not have access to it so that fucks like you can thanks to the US guarding the loot. Fuck’s sake with you people.

      Edit: Before any Euros try to bitch and whine about how unfair it is that you’re still colonizers, I do not care. I don’t fucking care. We are not going to do this thing where you can bitch about the US and pretend like you aren’t world destroyers for the same exact fucking reason it is. If you are not critical of how many EU and European settler nations have the wealth to sustain a healthcare system and quality of life that makes access to medicine an entitlement instead of a privilege, you’re not a serious person.

      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        12 days

        I’m Asian. My country was colonised by Europeans till half a century ago.

        Keep going, this is funny. We’ve gone from ‘America is the only nation on earth’ to ‘oh yeah, Europe exists too’.

        • CybranM@feddit.nuEnglish
          12 days

          Maybe orioler25 will figure out that there’s more to the world than only the US and EU :D

        • diablicja@lemmy.zipEnglish
          12 days

          I’m Eastern European, my country was exploited by USSR until less than 40 years ago. My bad for getting excited about the prospect of being able to walk in old age, it’s all my fault for -checks notes- joining a freedom of trade and movement organisation

          • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
            12 days

            my country was exploited by USSR

            Do you have a source for that? The inefficiencies of Communism and the lack of cheap third world resources is not the same as being colonised or post-colonised like a third world country.